afternoon

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They included Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus, the latter of which featured among other things the first TV appearances by Dame Mary Berry, who was then cookery editor of Home and Freezer Digest.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The 1984 musical, inspired by the painter Georges Seurat’s 1886 pointillist masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” explored the rigors and rewards of the artistic process.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Catch of the Week, Catch of the Year, Catch of the Century, or Merely the Catch of the Early Afternoon, Please Calm Down…I’ll leave the formal classification to the headline writers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Afternoon and evening departures increase your risk for crew shortages and plane delays.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Like the other members of the Saturday Afternoon Club, he expected to hear Burnham discuss the challenges of building an entire city on such a short schedule, but Burnham surprised him.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson